U+1DF3 "ᷳ" Combining Latin Small Letter O with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1DF3 "ᷳ" Combining Latin Small Letter O with Diaeresis is a combining diacritical mark used in historical and medieval text scholarship, primarily within the Latin script environment. It represents a small lowercase "o" with a diaeresis (two dots above) that is placed above a preceding base character, often serving as an abbreviation marker or a phonetic notation in manuscripts and early printed works. This character belongs to the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block and was encoded to support precise digital representation of scholarly editions, especially those involving Latin abbreviations and critical transcriptions. Its use helps preserve the typographic fidelity of original sources where such a diacritic indicates a contraction or a modified vowel sound without a separate standalone letter form.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᷳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᷳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xB7 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1DF3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001DF3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1df3 |
Unicode Properties